Hdd problems

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    I have three hdd's installed in my computer. Everything has been running fine for the past 10 months. Then all of the sudden when my computer was booting up it was stating that there may be hdd failure and I need to save my files. Then my computer started to run slow and after that it stated that my G drive is inaccessible. Now it does not see the drive at all. I did a Western Digital diagnostic test and it says there is an error. Does anyone know what may be the problem? If so am I able to recover my files? Thanks!

    Os-XP
    2 gb memory
    Hdd-120, 80, 320
    Ati Radeon X850
     
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    reseat the data & power cables to drives. what drive is with that hd?
     
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    I already had uninstalled the drive and reinstalled. I even ran a virus scan and nothing is working.
     
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    try another data cable with just that hd on it.
     
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    I tried that but the hdd is still not showing up.
     
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    try the drive on another ide port if drive is ide. is the drive by itself on cable?
     
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    I had already try that and it gave me a disk boot failure. The drive is not booting up period even when I swap out the cables.
     
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    Any suggestions?
     
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    what is the jumper setting on the drive because when as a single drive, remove the jumper? only wd has this problem not other hd's.
     
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    I have one as a master primary and the other as the master slave. I have the jumpers set according to what Wd provided. Everything has been working fine for the past 10 months. It's just all of the sudden I received that message when the system was booting. Now the master slave is not found on my computer.
     
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